Sight and Sound

God's lonely man : John Michael McDonagh discusses the influences behind Calvary, his tale of a priest living under the threat of death - from Melville and Bresson to Home and Away. By Trevor Johnston = 30 REGULARS Editorial : Twitticism = 5 Rushes Andrew Osmond is thrilled by the resurrection of a classic animation = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill decodes the meaning of gloves in cinema = 8 The Five Key...: films about women in New York = 9 Interview: Catherine Bray talks revenge with Blue Ruin director Jeremy Saulnier = 10 Dispatches...: Mark Cousins gets to grips with unclassifiable cinema = 13 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant follows Tracks = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant checks in to The Grand Budapest Hotel = 15 Brewster: Ben Roberts considers Terence Davies and tax breaks = 16 Profile: Geoffrey Macnab meets the man who put Flemish film on the map = 19 Wide Angl Nina Power sifts through the obsessions of Hito Steyerl = 52 Soundings: Daniel Barrow listens closely to Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil = 54 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon finds silence is golden in Bo’ness in Scotland = 55 Isabel Stevens digs the ‘Extraction’ theme at the AV Festival = 56 Letters = 111 Endings : Carmen Gray on Daisies = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Deep Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood : For a few short years at the beginning of the sound era before the censors clamped down, Hollywood portrayed America with an unprecedented frankness and realism. As our Deep Focus season opens at BFI Southbank, London, Mike Mashon sets out the historical context, James Bell samples the films, and Dan Callahan surveys the stars whose careers were made and lost = 20 Forbidden fruit: the wild alchemy of Walerian Borowczyk : Eight years after his death, the visionary Polish director’s perverse, confrontational narratives are ripe for reappraisal. By David Thompson =34 Punk’s not dead : Lukas Moodysson has returned to the observant, upbeat charm of his early films with We Are the Best!, about a trio of young female misfits in Sweden in the early 1980s who decide to form a punk band. By Ashley Clark = 42 THE S&S INTERVIEW: Jeremy Thomas : In the second half of an extensive career overview, the veteran producer talks to Nick James about his relationships with Nicolas Roeg, Bernardo Bertolucci and David Cronenberg, and why he has had to ‘mutate or die’ in order to continue working successfully in an increasingly conformist modern industry = 46 FILMS OF THE MONTH Blue Ruin = 60 Exhibition = 62 Ilo Ilo = 64 The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears/LEtrange Couleur des larmes de ton corps = 66 FILMS After the Night/Até ver a luz/Après la nuit = 68 Almost Married = 69 Calvary = 69 Captain America The Winter Soldier = 70 Cupcakes 71 Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus = 71 Divergent = 72 An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker/Epizoda u zivotu beraca zeljeza = 73 Escape from Planet Earth = 74 The Informant/Gibraltar = 74 The Invisible War = 75 Ironclad 2 Battle for Blood = 75 Khumba = 76 The Last Day on Mars = 76 Locke = 77 Looking for Light JaneBown = 78 The Love Punch = 78 TheLunchbox = 79 Magic Magic = 79 The Motel Life = 80 Muppets Most Wanted = 82 Non-stop = 82 Omar = 83 Pioneer/Pionér = 84 The Quiet Ones = 84 The Raid 2 Berandal = 85 The Sea = 86 300 Rise of an Empire = 88 Tracks = 88 20 Feet from Stardom = 89 Veronica Mars = 90 We Are the Best!/Vi är bäst! = 90 We Are the Ereaks = 92 Wrinkles/Arrugas = 92 You & Me Eorever = 93 Yves Saint Laurent = 94 HOME CINEMA Dead of Night, The Ealing Studios Collection Volume 1, Eoreign Correspondent, Man in the Dark, Many Wars Ago, Phantom of the Paradise, Roma, Seven Samurai, This Is Not a Dream = 98 DVD features Edward Lawrenson celebrates Bill Forsyth’s early teen dreams = 96 Michael Brooke revisits the unclassifiable Elio Petri = 99 Kim Newman breathes life into two TV versions of Erankenstein = 100 Television : Jack the Ripper, The Mistress, Nichols = 102 BOOKS Nick James enjoys Sally Potter’s manual on directing actors = 104 Ben Walters joins a chorus of approval for Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls = 105 Nick Pinkerton takes to the floor with a major biography of Bob Fosse = 106

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